Frederick dietz



(No Moaei.)

F. DIBTZ.

TUBULAR LANTBRN.

No. 310,188. Patented Jan. 6, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK DIETZ, OF NET YORK, N. Y.

TUBULAR LANTERN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters 'Patent No. 310,188, dated January 6, 1885.

Application filed November 26,199.3. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern Be it known that I, FREDERICK. Drnfrz, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improve- Inents in Tubular Lanterns, of which the fol,- lowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying d rawin gs, and to 'Ih e letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates especially to devices employed withlanterns et' that class known as tubular wherein side lifting-wires are used for raising the globe from the burner, and has for its object the provision of a holder and lifter which will maintain the burner securely in place, whether the globe is in position or not, and which will provide ready Ineans for tippin or tilting the globe and perforated plate when it is desired to remove the globe.

To attain the desired end my invention consists, essentially, in a perforated plate or globeholder united or affixed to a seat or ring encircling or partially encircling the burnercone and pressing thereagainst, employed in connection with side lifting-wires, the ring being formed thereby or secured thereto, the perforated ai r-plate being pivoted to or resting upon said seat; and my invention also involves certain other novel and useful combinations or arrangements of parts and peculiarities of construction 'and operation, all of which will be hereinafter iirst fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in clevation of a lantern wherein my improvements are employed. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the lower portion of the lantern, the upper part and the perforated plate being removed, said ligure showing the seat as formed by the lift-wire partially encircling the burner-cone. Fig. 3 is a like view showing the lifting-wires as attached to a flat ring encircling the burncr-cone. Fig. 4 shows a wire ring as encircling the cone, and Fi 5 shows a perforated plate as pivoted to the ring-seat. Fig. (i is a plan view of the tongue forming the pivot.

Like letters of reference, wherever they occur, indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

As heretofore constructed and arranged, in

lanterns of this class the lifting-wire has not difficulties and defects are overcome, andas the 4wire of the lifter, or the ring attached. thereto, hugs the cone closely it cannot be shaken or accidentally knocked from its seat when the pressure of the globe upon the perforated plate is reinoved.

A is the lifting-wire, made in one or more parts, as preferred. In Fig. 2 it is shown as made of a single piece and partially encircling the burner-cone. In Fig. 3 it is shown as made in two parts, the lower extremities whereof are united to a sheet-metal ring, B, encircling the cone. rIhis ring is provided with a perforation,Z1,through which the tongue C passes after passing through a similar perforation in plate D. is shown as encircling the cone.

Fig. 5 shows the perforated plate D as affixed to the encircling-ring by simply passing the tongue C through said plate and fastening its lower extremity around the ring-seat.

I lay no claim herein to anything shown or described in Letters Patent No. 283,237, as my invention is an improvement thereon, in that in my device the seat for the globe-supporting plate is interposed between said plate and the burner-cone, so as to bear against the latter and hold the same in place both when the globe is upright and when tilted.

Having now fully described my invent-ion, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a lantern of the character herein described, the combination, with the side liftingwires, the burnercone, and globe-supporting plate, of a seat for said plate interposed between the saine and the burner-cone and bearing against the latter both when the globe is upright and when tilted, whereby said seat is caused at all times to hold the cone in place, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

III Fig. 4 t-he lifting-wire IOO 2. Init tubularlantern provided with globe- In testimony that I claim the foregoing I lifting side wires, it perforated plate or globeinve hereunto set my hand in the presence of holder, a burner-cone, and zt seat for the globetwo Witnesses. holder having the latter hinged thereto, the

5 said seat and its hinge bearing against the cone i FREDERICK DIETZ. to throw the Weight of the globe on the cone l both when the globe is upright and when XVitnesses; tilted, whereby the seat and globe will hold EUGENE N. ELIOT, the cone in place at both such times, substan- A. M. PIERCE.

1o tially as and for the purpose set forth. 1 

